Solace
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Once their minds have been decided, the journey goes quickly.
Thal proves to be a strong traveler, and Solace suspects that the young mare would gallop even quicker if she didn't have the recently pregnant Caretaker holding her back. They skirt the coast, keeping clear of the other kingdoms until they reach the river, where they turn sharply west.
"Follow the rivers back to Hyaline if you ever get lost, they flow from our lake out into the ocean." Solace mentions as they do just that. Tracing the waterway they canter upstream, climbing in elevation as they go, and it isn't long before they reach Hyaline's foothills.
Once within the scent lines of her home, Solace visibly. "Almost there," she sighs, "through these mountains their lies a deep, crystalline lake. That is the heart of the territory and a good place to meet the others." The pegasus slows her stride to a trot as she speaks, altering her course to head for a narrow pass nestled between two mountains.
They slip through the narrow alley between the sheer walls of stone and Solace doesn't halt until they reach a clearing at the end of the pass. Bluegrass is plush below their feet as the lake basin opens up before them, and the Caretaker knows that she will never get tired of sharing this view. With a light whinny she calls for any who may be near, and lets her growing family know that she has returned safely.